Originally Posted by bykhed01
Hi again, this has gone from bad to worse as RealBand is unable to open a file; Tried with 3 songs, one of the files I was able to load in RB earlier today and it worked, which leaves me to believe its something to do with something within the songs, a mute, as someone asked about but I haven't found that fix and won't now until I rebuild RealBand. I've rebooted my laptop a few times and then restart RB, it'll load and say its loading the song but it won't anymore. I'm thinking its time to re-install; is it possible to just remove and reinstall just RB. I didn't find RB in the apps list nor did I find an uninstall executable, but I do see the BnB uninstaller... Contacted PG Music help, said just delete the folder and re-install.

I do have an ASIO device and tried it but it didn't change the result, silence.
When you say "it worked" does that mean that the song successfully played?

When you say that "it's loading the song but it won't anymore", did the tracks all appear, etc. or did the process just stop completely?

If it was my system, I would rename the existing BB folder to something like BB-Bad and then just do a new install following the install prompts choosing the defaults with no changes. Be sure that it doesn't try to install anything into the BB-Bad folder. Also be sure your new shortcuts are directing BIAB and RB to run from the BB folder, not BB-Bad.

I would also download Audacity and try a sample recording and playback there to see if your record and audio settings are working there just as a sanity check, even though in the end your BIAB / RB settings might not be the exact same when you find the answer for those programs. This step would just tell you if anything works and what those settings were so you could try them in RB / BIAB or tells you if nothing works and then you can work on that as a start which might open the door to your BIAB / RB issue for a direction to pursue for a solution.

Finally, I would create a simple song in BIAB with a few chords and a style and save it with a name like TEST123.SGU or something. Then I would load that file into RB and see if it loads and plays.

It's all a part of the process of trying to narrow down and isolating the problem.

(If you don't have anything you would want to scavenge from the old BB folder later after you fixed the problem and you just want to start over, you could just totally DELETE the existing BB folder along with all the sub-folders and skip the rename and just totally start over from scratch. That's what PG Music was suggesting, and that would give you your clean installation of BIAB and RB).

Last edited by BluegrassPicker; 03/23/26 01:11 PM.